[Leica] STEVE

[Philippe]

Where's your message in all this?

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Philippe


Le 20 nov. 2014 à 19:40, Steve Barbour <steve.barbour at gmail.com> a écrit :

> 
>> On Nov 20, 2014, at 10:23 AM, Ken Iisaka <ken at iisaka.com> wrote:
>> 
>> 2"x2"? Before CDs and memory sticks?
>> 
>> These 2"x2" square things I know were called "slides" but each only carried
>> one image.  ie  floppies...
>> 
>> Or, are you referring to CF or Compact Flash? The first ones contained a
>> tiny little hard disk, but soon replaced by flash memory. these are an inch or 1.5 in   they can carry many images... ie CF cards
>> 
>> I have a reader, and I'd be happy to transfer the images to another medium
>> for you, provided there aren't millions of them. How many are we talking
>> about? I'm sure local computer shops could be persuaded to do the same.
>> 
>> 
>> On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 10:14 AM, Ted Grant <tedgrant at shaw.ca> wrote:
>> 
>>> HI CREW,
>>> Yeah I know it's me asking a techie question! :-) Well you all know "I'm
>>> clueless when it comes to techie things."
>>> So please be kind to the "old lad." Thank you. :-)
>>> 
>>> Remember those little, I think they were about 2"X 2"square discs we loaded
>>> all kinds of images on? Then technologies advanced and we moved to CD's and
>>> Memory Sticks" And heaven knows what?
>>> 
>>> I have quite a number of those 2X2 discs, if that's what they're called?
>>> 
>>> Can I take them to some computer techie shop and have the info on them
>>> downloaded to memory sticks of today? I'm sure there's a wealth of "old
>>> images" loaded on them and I'd like to retrieve them if possible? And not
>>> going to cost the Bank of Canada monetary reserves to pay for the change
>>> over? :-)
>>> 
>>> At one time I did have a back-up hard drive, unfortunately the chap
>>> installing it didn't do it right! YEP you guessed! So when we did have a
>>> computer crash and burn I lost about 10,000 images because the back-up
>>> drive
>>> wasn't doing anything but taking up space in my little computer room!!! :-(
>>> :-(
>>> 
>>> Your suggestions please.
>>> 
>>> Thanks a bunch.
>>> 
>>> cheers,
>>> ted
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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>> 
>> 
>> 
>> -- 
>> Ken Iisaka
>> first name at last name dot org or com
>> 
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